"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
"White man tells me--hunh-- Damn yo' soul; Got no need, bebby, To be tole."
"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."
"There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it."
“Slang…the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers, the acted upon, the used, the used up.”
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
